Turnwhipple! (A Blog)

Flirt
Monday, May 12, 2008

I see a fellow near to me,
He just took off his shirt;
He pulled it slowly o’er his head
And grinned, a subtle flirt.

He stretched a bit and turned his head
As if to glance my way,
I slowly peered toward my left
And then I turned away.

This game of flirting–so sincere!,
(And jolly fun to do.)
When truth is tinged with cool reserve
Yet forbidden and subdued.

A fleeting look, a simple smile,
A turning head or two,
A lingering stare, a sexy wink,
A sign to say “you’ll do.”

Goodbye

As if your memory to save
grave images in my mind play
of your gentle neck on days
when we slept in and smelled the rain.

Your breath as if the plastic smell
of newborn baby and caramel
made worth the days when we’d part ways
But joined that eve to dwell.

Ten days I slumbered, tears on face,
your cologne upon my pillowcase,
gently weeping away its scent
your memory falling in slow decant.

Blessed time had we when we had filled
our autumn days with sugared kiss,
the heated friction when we played
lay waste now and remiss.

I called you here and there, I thought,
your solemn ear would long to hear
my voice in whispered love tones due,
when silence greeted instead of you.

Long hours brought autumn back this year,
Your face has faded but all too clear
remain the mornings filled with pain
when we slept in and smelled the rain.

Invented in 1975 by Steven J. Sasson. It weighed eight pounds, was the size of a toaster, and produced a 0.01 megapixel image that took 23 seconds to record onto a digital cassette tape.

Personally I remember the first digital camera I ever used, the Apple Quicktake 100, which was back in middle school, circa 1994. (Don’t remind me that it was nearly 15 YEARS ago!)

The Quicktake was an innovation its time, boasting 1mb of flash memory, which could hold eight “high resolution” 640×480 images. It had an optical viewfinder, and an LCD screen which displayed status information only. The cost? Only $750.

Nowadays, I use the Canon 5D for my primary professional camera, which touts a more generous 12-megapixel resolution (and thankfully better storage!)

Of course, nothing on the market right now compares to the Gigapxl company’s 100-pound 4-GIGApixel camera (that’s 4,000 megapixels). Check out the sample pictures!

Update: My buddy Chris has been kind enough to inform me that the Gigapxl camera actually utilizes a substance called “FLIM” to aide in the capture process. This, FLIM apparently has been around for a long time and is a non-digital method of capturing images. Perhaps next time I visit the Smithsonian, I may be able to have a peek at this “FLIM”.

Currently one of the highest-resolution all-digital image capturing device on the market right now would be the PhaseOne P45+, which is a medium-format digital back capable of capturing 39-megapixel images. The cost? Why, only $33,700 for the digital-back ONLY. Sign me up for three, please.